The web and internet are governed in the hands-off style of Standards Governance (i.e. W3C, IETF, IEEE, etc). It's an approach to decentralized governance that is as important as ever, so we should understand it.
We're having two Q&A sessions as the end of this month by Metagov community members who have served several of the standards organizations that define the internet (in some cases literally). You'll learn how they work, how they don't (drama!), and concretely what's involved in helping to run the internet (and getting to a place of realizing its your rightful place).
Session 2: Standards governance as a general design pattern
Agenda:
- "how the sausage is made": what standards bodies are like
- the day to day
- failure modes: how to do it wrong
- "good governance" of standards
- trading off expertise and representing stakeholders